John Gibbons
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873 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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I think it's about 57% of its own food.
There represented a huge risk in the event of a breakdown of international supply chains, that there would be 40% of their food they would have to import.
And this represented a supply chain risk to the UK and like a real danger.
So they've marked this up as a serious risk.
And that got me thinking, what's the equivalent Irish vulnerability?
So rather than in the British case producing about 57%.
Percent of their food on the island of Britain, we produce about somewhere between 15 and 20 percent.
So we're ek we import more than 80 percent of everything that is in your shops and supermarkets.
Now that is an incredible vulnerability.
That's number one.
Number two, look at the supply chains, Matt.
We're at the very edge of Europe.
We're at the end of international supply chains.
And essentially that means that pretty much
Much everything that we eat in this country arrives here by ship.
Pretty much.
Now, if those shipping lanes for any reason were to be closed or shut down, or an extension of the chaos we've seen in the Gulf of Vermuz, like we we know, for example, the Panama Canal is struggling because of low water levels.
So we see major pin pinch points in global food supply systems, and of course, on top of that, we're also looking at the
Spectre of multiple breadbasket failures, which in simple terms means that normally the the production, the food production in the world is spread around major breadbasket areas like Canada, like Ukraine, like Russia, and so on.
And these produce these are massive exporters of food.
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